Angela Corey was so angry over Alan Dershowitz’s criticism of her affidavit in the Zimmerman case (he said it “willfully and deliberately omitted” exculpatory evidence) that she tried to convince Harvard Law School to fire him. From Ian Tuttle’s article: “What happened in the weeks and months that followed was instructive. Dershowitz says that he was flooded with correspondence from people telling him that this is Corey’s well-known M.O. He says numerous sources – lawyers who had sparred with Corey in the courtroom, lawyers who had worked with and for her, and even multiple judges – informed him that Corey has a history of vigorously attacking any and all who criticize her. But it’s worse than that: Correspondents told him that Corey has a history of overcharging and withholding evidence.”

An IRS lawyer named Carter Hall testified to the House of Representatives that his bosses told him that the IRS’s chief counsel’s office was involved in drafting the rules and policies that subjected conservative groups to additional scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status. The chief counsel of the IRS is a political appointee, and Obama’s man is William Wilkins.

Mike Flynn on Senator John McCain’s latest triumph: “Sen. John McCain spent the weekend negotiating with Majority Leader Harry Reid on a deal to avert Reid’s threatened use of the ‘nuclear option’ to change Senate rules to eliminate filibusters on Presidential nominations. Through his efforts, McCain was able to secure a complete GOP capitulation on 7 pending nominations. Reid secured all the benefits of exercising the ‘nuclear option’ without the political cost of actually using it.”

Joe Biden’s firearms advice meets the real world: “A Washington state man who fired a shotgun to scare away possible car prowlers from his property was arraigned Wednesday for illegal discharging of a firearm, and he cited Vice President Joe Biden’s public advice about shooting such weapons in the air in his defense.”